Drenching cancels Kilkivan Campdraft

Organisers of the Kilkivan Campdraft say they are devastated they have had to cancel the event after postponing it due to floods.

The campdraft is traditionally held in May but was put back to this weekend so that volunteers could repair the showgrounds after the January flood.

Show and campdraft association president Mike Atthow says they have now had to tell competitors to go home after getting nearly 90 millimetres of rain in the past week.

"We've spent just about all the time since then rebuilding the amenities at the showgrounds, the fences, everything like that and we've just had it ready to go this weekend and we've had this rain and it's pretty ironical," he said.

Mr Atthow says it has cost more than $100,000 and countless hours of work to rebuild the showgrounds.

"We were able to source good lines of cattle, we had huge nominations, unfortunately we've had to turn some of the competitors who wanted to come away," he said.

"Yes it's not huge in the terms of prize money compared to the really big ones but it is a really popular campdraft yes."